New to virtualizatoin

[Brendan Whelan]

I am new to using virtualization and, after some effort, I have created 
and then cloned a virtual image on a laptop with an Intel P8400 
processor using Fedora 10.
Unfortunately,  when I run the cloned image I don't have proper cursor 
control, even after pressing ctrl-alt. Any suggestions?
Is there a straightforward guide to creating and managing virtual 
applications under Fedora 10?
I know that KVM and VMWare use different mechanisms. My understanding is 
that KVM accesses the hardware directly whilst VMWare creates a base 
system through which all information, from the virtual systems, is 
routed. However, is it possible to migrate an image from Fedora to VMware? 
Many thanks, Brendan

[Dor Laor]

Brendan Whelan wrote:
> I am new to using virtualization and, after some effort, I have 
> created and then cloned a virtual image on a laptop with an Intel 
> P8400 processor using Fedora 10.
> Unfortunately,  when I run the cloned image I don't have proper cursor 
> control, even after pressing ctrl-alt. Any suggestions?
> Is there a straightforward guide to creating and managing virtual 
> applications under Fedora 10?

For the mouse issue you might look at 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00083.html
Virt-manager is used to run VMs on F10
> I know that KVM and VMWare use different mechanisms. My understanding 
> is that KVM accesses the hardware directly whilst VMWare creates a 
> base system through which all information, from the virtual systems, 
> is routed. However, is it possible to migrate an image from Fedora to 
> VMware? Many thanks, Brendan

While I hate to explain this, here it is: you can convert the disk 
format to VMW vmdk format using qemu-img and just run it there.
> Fedora-virt mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> I am new to using virtualization and, after some effort, I have created 
> and then cloned a virtual image on a laptop with an Intel P8400 
> processor using Fedora 10.
> Unfortunately,  when I run the cloned image I don't have proper cursor 
> control, even after pressing ctrl-alt. Any suggestions?

There was a bug in GTK-VNC for mouse grab handling. I've hust pushed an
update to the stable repos so it should show up in a couple of days
You want

gtk-vnc-0.3.8-2.fc10

As of Fedora 11, the mouse will work perfectly without any grab being
needed

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtImprovedConsole

Daniel

[Brendan Whelan]

Thanks to Daniel and Dor for your helpful reponses. I hope to get back 
to configuring the laptop in a day ot two. Brendan

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> > I am new to using virtualization and, after some effort, I have created 
> > and then cloned a virtual image on a laptop with an Intel P8400 
> > processor using Fedora 10.
> > Unfortunately,  when I run the cloned image I don't have proper cursor 
> > control, even after pressing ctrl-alt. Any suggestions?
>
> There was a bug in GTK-VNC for mouse grab handling. I've hust pushed an
> update to the stable repos so it should show up in a couple of days
> You want
>
> gtk-vnc-0.3.8-2.fc10
>
> As of Fedora 11, the mouse will work perfectly without any grab being
> needed
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtImprovedConsole
>
> Daniel